26 FEBRUARY 1870, page 18

Barn Um's Autobiography.*

THE successful showman who has made his name typical of his profession, and who has so often boasted of being a humbug that what would otherwise be an insult is accepted as a......

An Optimistic Realist.* Ir Is Now Some Years Since, In

criticizing a book of Mr. Gilbert's, we used as the aptest epithet to signalize certain salient charac- teristics of his work the term Defoe-like. This assuredly expressed......